Intro ===== Have you ever wanted to tar something, but you didn't want to push it to your server first? Tar-js is here to the rescue!! With tar-js, you can construct a tar archive in the browser. This is basically a port of tar-async for Nodejs for the browser, with a couple differences. Here's what it supports: * Add strings to a tar archive as files * Customizable uid, gid, mtime, and permissions (defaults work well though too) * Add files in a directory heirarchy Dependencies ------------ Tar needs an HTML5 compliant browser. More specifically it needs `Uint8Array` to work. The only external module is require-kiss, which makes browser JS much more Node-like. This module can be installed from npm (`npm install require-kiss`) or directly downloaded from github (https://github.com/coolaj86/require-kiss-js). Usage Guide =========== In your HTML file, make sure that require-kiss is included first. Then, to use it, do something like this: var Tar = require('tar-js'), tape = new Tar(); Then all you got to do is call `tape.append` with your params and it'll be added to the archive. That's it! Here's the api for append: `append(filepath, content, [opts], [callback])` * filepath- string path (can include directories and such) * content- string or Uint8Array * opts- options: * mode- permissions of resulting file (octet) [default: 777] * mtime- modification time in seconds (integer) [default: current time] * uid- user id (integer) [default: 0] * gid- group id (integer) [default: 0] * callback- callback when done (takes a Uint8Array as it's only parameter) * This is a reference to the tar so far * Copy it if you want to use it, because subsequent adds may break stuff